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		</div><h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>Michigan woman charged with inciting riots after posting Facebook Live video </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>Alexandria “Ally” Lyons posted livestreamed video over the weekend during riots in Grand Rapids, MI., that left more than 100 businesses damaged </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>She “was responsible for causing and creating a lot of damage in the downtown area,” police said</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>Lyons, 22, was arrested after numerous people reported her actions to police</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>She&#8217;s charged with inciting a riot, malicious destruction of property and stealing jewelry from a smashed case </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="postid-15770852"><span style="color: #453434;"><strong>Bond was set at $40,000 bond and faces up to 10 years in prison</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348010" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Alexandria-Lyons-2.jpg" alt="Alexandria Lyons 2" width="1033" height="688" /><strong>Facebook inciter Alexandria “Ally” Lyons posted the livestreamed video over the weekend during riots in Grand Rapids that left more than 100 businesses damaged</strong></h6>
<p>A 22-year-old Michigan woman faces up to 10 years behind bars for encouraging others to loot and throw bricks at buildings in a Facebook Live video, according to a report.<br />
Alexandria “Ally” Lyons posted the livestreamed video over the weekend during riots in Grand Rapids that left more than 100 businesses damaged, according to an <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/06/young-woman-incited-riot-on-her-own-facebook-live-video-police-say.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MLive.com</a> report.<br />
In the video, Lyons is seen swigging beer, likely stolen from a bar called Mojo’s in Grand Rapids, and showing off clothes allegedly swiped from F. David Barney Clothiers, according to court records.<br />
At another point, “she is heard multiple times encouraging her friends and others to throw bricks or other objects at windows of multiple businesses downtown and at one point picks up a brick herself and mentions heading ‘back to the courthouse,’” the arrest The Grand Rapids resident posted video of a party at her home after the riots in which clothing stolen from F. David Barney Clothiers, 125 Ottawa Ave. NW, was displayed.<br />
Photos of Lyons and accusations about her role in the riots was circulating on social media afterwards.<br />
She and her friends allegedly encouraged others who were trying to break into an automated teller machine, or ATM, and allegedly helped themselves to jewelry in a smashed display case on the sidewalk.<br />
&#8220;Defendant could be heard telling her friends to get her a gold bracelet because she already has silver ones,” police said in the arrest affidavit.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348024" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ATM-destroyed-by-rioters-in-Grand-Rapisds-MI-on-Saturday.jpg" alt="ATM destroyed by rioters in Grand Rapisds, MI on Saturday" width="700" height="525" /><strong>ATM destroyed by looters during the riots in Grand Rapids, MI., on Saturday</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-348022" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Protesters-try-to-set-fire-in-downtown-Grand-Rapids-on-Saturday.jpg" alt="Protesters try to set fire in downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday" width="700" height="525" /><strong>Protesters try to set a fire in downtown Grand Rapids on Saturday &#8211; Lyons has been cited as an instigator in these acts o looting and vandalism</strong></h6>
<p>Lyons is also accused of stealing jewelry from a smashed case on the sidewalk, telling her friends “to get her a gold bracelet because she already has silver ones,” police said.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text);">Lyons was taken into custody after numerous people reported her activities to authorities, alleging she “was responsible for causing and creating a lot of damage in the downtown area,” police said.<br />
</span>While she was being detained at the station, police received videos via text message allegedly showing her kicking in a window of a county building during the riots.<br />
Lyons is charged with inciting a riot, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and malicious destruction of property, a five-year felony. She is being held on a $40,000 bond, according to MLive.com.<br />
Grand Rapids descended into chaos over the weekend following a protest over the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.</p>
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Michigan woman charged with inciting riots after posting Facebook Live video encouraging mayhem – Alexandria Lyons, 22, faces 10 years in prison for theft and encouraging others to loot and destroy buildings
